kristi Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 using 2005LE kwrite. changed Open/Save to DOS/Windows, but still when I open it in windows XP it is without delimiters. tia Kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Here's what may have happened to you: if you changed Kwrite's defaults by Settings -> Configure Editor -> Open/Save -> End of line -> DOS/Windows, I believe that applies to newly created files only. Existing files will retain whatever end-of-line format they were originally created with. To change the format of an existing document to what you want (regardless of the default setting), in Kwrite do a Tools -> End of Line -> Windows/DOS and then save the file. You can check that it's the format you want by opening the text file with hexedit (urpmi hexedit if it's not installed). You should see the 0D OA end-of-line combination if it's in the Windows/Dos format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 hi kristi, Maybe try using Wordpad... instead of Notepad. Wordpad makes my Linux text files easier to read in Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 There is always unix2dos and dos2unix as well. I also use gvim as my editor on both platforms, and it will read both formats. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted July 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Profuse thanks to all. What I did was, with the setting in kwrite set to DOS/Windows, I opened a new (blank) kwrite, copied the text from the old kwrite window, and saved it. That apparently saved it "correctly" as I was able to read it with Gates-o-matic. Only reason I needed Winblows was that my Labtec webcam has a nice motion detector that runs under XP, and I wanted to use it briefly. I do not know of one for Linux. Thanks again! Kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Kristi, I had the same problem until I installed Abiword on both computers and used abiword's default format. My thumbdrive with FAT32 format can be used on both computers for transferring text files back and forth. Unfortunately it's not included in 10.1 but can be found on Mandriva mirror site. If you get into trouble again this is an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Hello kristi. Not having heard from you for a while I thought you had left us. I missed your posts. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted July 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Hi John, Yeah, I'm kinda sporadic these days - not using the computer much. Waiting for 2006.1 or somesuch to install it! Best! Kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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